Word: lippold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sensed the need for a sculpture that would "float in space and relate in a contemporary manner to the interior of the foyer, just as the magnificent crystal chandeliers of a former day took command of their space." He selected one of the best space-commanders around: Sculptor Richard Lippold...
...Lippold has produced as elegant a body of work as any artist that ever wielded a welding torch. The images that inspire him are wholly modern-"suspension bridges, TV antennas, steel skyscrapers. Our faith is in space, energy, communications, not in pyramids and cathedrals." For an age that has successfully defied the law of gravity, the great preoccupation, as Lippold sees it, is space-not only the getting of things off the ground, but also the many ways of opening things up, from atomic fission to psychoanalysis. "In the 20th century," he has said, "we do not look at things...
...Philharmonic Hall, Lippold chose as his material highly polished copper alloy because it complemented the travertine used in the interior. After experimenting with a model in his studio, he ordered 190 slender metal planks of different sizes, to be hung from the ceiling by steel wires of extra strength. He had no final image in mind as he worked, but in the end he produced two giant floating sculptures that suggested "two friendly gods." He named his work Orpheus and Apollo...
...bars can move, but the constant play of light keeps them in motion. Between the clusters is a graceful arch of bars that connects them like golden steppingstones. But Lippold's achievement is that on every level and from every angle the sculptures are successful, as esthetically true as a bunch of grapes. From the lobby, they cut the room's vast elongation without removing an inch of space. From the first balcony, they explode like flowers suddenly bursting into bloom. Higher up, the slender wires attract attention: hundreds of cats' cradles that seem to have...
...from the elegant wired constructions of Harry Bertoia to the thick figure paintings of the late David Park to the haunting geometry of Painter Attilio Salemme. Otto Gerson deals mostly in first-rate sculpture from Barlach to David Smith. The Willard Gallery (Feininger, Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Sculptor Richard Lippold) is excellent; so is John Bernard Myers' Tibor de Nagy Gallery, whose artists include Larry Rivers, Robert Goodnough and Fairfield Porter. In the print field, the sightseer or collector can do no better than start at the A.A.A. Gallery on Fifth Avenue, which has the most catholic assortment...